404 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 209]

And it is hereby provided that no two road commissioners
shall be elected or appointed from the same commissioner dis-
trict, and whenever a vacancy shall occur in the said Board of
Road Commissioners on account of death, resignation or remo-
val, the Governor shall appoint some qualified person from the
same commissioner district where said vacancy may occur to
serve until his .successor shall be elected and qualified; and any
member of said board may be removed by the Governor upon
written charges, after a hearing, provided such charges have
been sustained and the Governor believes that the commissioner
so charged should be removed.

The road commissioners as provided for in this act, whether
appointed or elected by the voters of said county, shall devote
his whole time to his duties as road commissioner and give his
personal supervision daily during the entire working hours to
the management and direction of the working force of his road
district, and shall receive a salary of six hundred dollars per
annum, payable monthly, and shall not receive any other remun-
eration, directly or indirectly, by reason of his position.

At the general election held on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, 1913, and every two years there-
after, the legally qualified voters of Saint Mary's county shall
elect three road commissioners for said county, who must be
legal residents of the county. At said election in 1913, and
every two years thereafter, the board of election supervisors for
Saint Mary's county shall cause the names of the duly nom-
inated candidates for road commissioners to be printed on the
official ballots so as to give each legally qualified voter of Saint
Mary's county full opportunity to vote for three candidates for
road commissioners at said election which road commissioners
shall constitute the Board of Road Commissioners and their
term of office shall begin at the expiration of the terms of
office of their predecessors and shall continue for two years
or until their successors may be elected and qualified, when their
office and all records, funds and property under their control
shall be turned over to their successors.

SEC. 4. The Board of Road Commissioners shall have super-
vision over all public highways and bridges except State roads
and State-aid roads, shall open and construct new roads and
bridges and close old ones where deemed advisable, following
the provisions of the Code of Public General Laws relating to
the opening and closing of public roads, and shall work the roads
from the first day of March to the first day of November, and
shall haul gravel and do any other work for the improvement
of the roads, except grading, that they may deem practicable